No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain. Whatever therefore is terrible, with regard to sight, is sublime... The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 158by Edmund Burke - 1815Full view - About this book
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...highest degree ; the inferior effects are admiration, reverence, and respect. SECT. II. — TEBEOB. 'No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as few? For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...inferior effects are admiration, reverence, and respect. * Part I. »ect. 3, 4, 7. SECT. II. — TERROR. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its...regard to sight, is sublime too, whether this cause of terror be endued with greatness of dimensions or not ; for it is impossible to look on any thing as... | |
| 1833 - 522 pages
...of pleasure," and, " the strongest emotions of which the mind is capable,'' are based upon it. But " fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain." We all know, on the other hand, that the emotions of sublimity are connected with high delight, with... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 748 pages
...force. Astonishment, as I have said, is the effect of the sublime in its highest degree ; the inférieur effects are admiration, reverence, and respect, SECT....the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning яа/ear. t For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...in its highest degree ; the inférieur effects are admiration, reverence, and respect. SECT, п.— TERROUR. No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear, t For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain.... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...highest degree; the inférieur effects are admiration} reverence and respect. SECTION П. No passion во ая fear.f For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles... | |
| Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...sublime in its highest degree; the inferiour effects are admiration, reverence and respecu SECTION n. obedience, when he should no longer possess any authority to command ? This address fear.f For fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...consequence reason on that object which employs it. Hence arises the great power of the sublime, that, @R* fFor fear being an apprehension of pain or death, it operates in a manner that resembles actual pain.... | |
| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1842 - 538 pages
...positive pleasure — whatever exciles this delight I call sublime.' (Inquiry, part i., sect. IB.) ' Whatever therefore is terrible, with regard to sight, is sublime too, whether this cause of terror be endued with greatness of dimensions or not.' (Ibid., part ii., sect. 2.) Nothing can be more... | |
| Society for the diffusion of useful knowledge - 1842 - 536 pages
...positive pleasure — whatever excites this delight I call sublime.' (Inquiry, part i., sect. 18.) • Whatever therefore is terrible, with regard to sight, is sublime too, whether this cause of terror be endued with greatness of dimensions or not.' (Ibid., part ii., sect. '¿.) Nothing can be... | |
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